Children watching TV at preschool?

There's not quite a difference between 15 and 30 mins- it's a tiny proportion of the day. Unless you get with the times and wake up to the fact that technology is not evil, you're going to be denying your DS the opportunities and skills he needs for his future.

DD is in year 1 and watches "TV" at school shock horror they even watch YouTube!! It's actually either educational in some way or part of chill time. It's totally fine and I don't understand the outrage and anger about it.

Our nursery doesn't do this. I'm also surprised that it seems so common in other nurseries!

At lunch/snack time the children all eat together and are entertained at the table until everyone is done before being herded back to their play area (in the same room but on the other side of a gate) so that they can play while one or two of the staff tidy up.

YABVVU

Screen time is not equivalent to crack cocaine as some seem to think on Mumsnet. 15 mins to relax after lunch is not a bad thing. If anything, it allows DC whose parents(such as the OP) make them live in the Stone Age by banning technology to experience the tools they're going to grow up working with.

DS2's preschool had a computer, in reality, he was only on it for a few minutes at a time. One preschool programme, usually 10 - 15 minutes long, a day won't hurt him. PFB?

I think it's a bit rubbish too. Don't get me wrong, I love tv, have never really restricted it at home and understand it's place from primary onwards - but at preschool I thinks its different. Technology is important, but that doesn't really mean just sitting watching the TV. I also understand the need to tidy up etc, but I think a lot of preschools manage this without TV.

My kids nursery do this too for the all day lids, so they have a bit quiet time after eating and so staff can tidy up/prepare afternoon activities- usually only on for a short time, my kids actually seem to watch quite a lot for their learning at school, with various you tube suggestions also being sent home!
I don't see it as a problem, I don't restrict t.v time though, and my kids watch a bit then go off playing, I find that my friends who restrict their kids t.v time, the kids become obsessed

I don't agree with this and am quite surprised to hear it's a considered normal. It's one thing to watch Words and Pictures once a week and talk about it after (or whatever equivalent educational program is around these days) but I don't want my DS watching bratty Peppa Pig cartoons, that's not what I want to send him to school for.

The staff need to find a way to keep children sitting down without supervision whilst they tidy up. It's probably 15 minutes. I wouldn't have an issue with that.

wait till actual school. dd watched peppa pig and cbeebies regularly as part of her education at school.

It’s so the staff can tidy up

i think assuming it's just 10/15 mins after lunch then its fine. they are probabky gettkng them to sit still while they tidy up. You could ask how long they watch it for.

I wouldn’t worry. It’s fine. They will watch tv documentary’s all through school as part of lessons. It’s only for a little while, I wouldn’t sweat it.

TV will play part of your child's education right through to 6th form so you may aswell get used to it. F I sound harsh then so be it but to gas been part of education for a very long time, it certainly was in the 70s when I was in primary so it's not new. My now 20 year old had it and my youngest in primary had it aswell. No amount whinging on a forum will change almost 50 years if to being used in schools.

The kids have just had lunch so they need them to sit and do something calm so they don't chug everywhere while they clean up. Technology is good for children. My son takes every opportunity to be on the computer at preschool, sometimes he runs the little cartoons on there. No big deal.

They don't have to tell you.

It's probably just while they are waiting for all the children to finish eating/ tidying up.

Literal copy of another thread. Yes yabu.